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Strategies to Engage the Next Generation of Scientists
Author(s) -
Gentile Lisa N
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.24.1_supplement.73.1
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , futures contract , perspective (graphical) , mathematics education , engineering ethics , psychology , sociology , medical education , pedagogy , political science , engineering , computer science , business , medicine , finance , artificial intelligence , law
I will discuss four programs that I am involved with to encourage students to pursue futures in the sciences. The first, funded by NSF‐CAREER, is one that encourages high school students (some high achieving and some from more disadvantaged programs) and their teachers to spend their summers doing research and designing experiments to bring back to their classrooms. Examples of research projects, and outcomes as well as experiments designed will be presented. Next, an integrated, quantitative approach to teaching introductory science/math education, funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), will be described. Having just been designed and implemented, results from the first year of the program will be shared. Strategies of an undergraduate research program, funded by NSF‐CAREER, HHMI, and MERCK‐AAAS, focused on bringing students into productive long term research projects, as early as the summer prior to their freshman year, will also be discussed. Finally, the benefits of including post‐baccalaureate students into undergraduate research programs will be detailed, both from the perspective of the students involved as well as the forward momentum of the lab.